"Health care is the ultimate consumer product -- we all consume it, " Lanier says.
But so are Armani suits and weekend homes, and they all consume resources.
Accessing emails, posting status updates, and uploading pictures all consume significant amounts of data, generating more revenues for network operators like Sprint.
Microwave ovens, cellphone chargers, DVD players, computer monitors and printers all silently consume power when they aren't in use.
And while the societal benefits of this highly networked economy are enormous, the data centers that make it all possible consume huge amounts of energy.
In less than 10 years, according to one estimate, data centers alone will swallow more electricity than France, Brazil, Canada and Germany all now consume.
But most importantly, not all tissues consume sugar at equal rates.
All the petty differences that consume us in normal times all seem to melt away.
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All exports mean that domestic consumers get a little less to consume, all exports push up prices to domestic consumers.
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The despair that victims experience can all too quickly consume them and destroy their lives.
There are download-to-own music services, Internet radio services and subscription services that allow you to consume all the music you want.
"It is hard to escape the conclusion that Citi is going to consume all of the TARP money and then some as the credit cycle troughs, " Whalen said in a research note Tuesday.
Sarah Schenker, a dietician at the British Nutrition Foundation, said it was important for all young women to consume sufficient levels of calcium.
The problem is not just wheat, but also processed dairy and sugars -- all of which we consume more regularly and in higher quantities than ever before.
After all, video ads consume buckets upon buckets of data.
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Our goal is to revolutionize the way families consume childcare all across the nation, and in doing so, to strengthen community ties and improve quality of life for millions of Americans.
If everyone is trying to consume everything all the resources of society and investors are trying to invest at the same time then more resources will be demanded than there are resources available.
Where the production of goods and services was so efficient (driven you will recall, by advancing technology) that scarcity simply vanished and all were able to consume what they wanted or needed without regard to the methods of production.
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Many of the people we deal with are massively malnourished, so if we introduce a sweet beverage into their food mix, that may be the only carbohydrate that they consume at all so it does actually have an important benefit.
Disney.com is being rebuilt, a destination to learn about all things Disney, to consume Disney products directly.
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And China has also acknowledged that it needs to transition to a more balanced growth strategy internally where they're focusing on their enormous domestic market and giving their people the opportunity to buy goods and services and consume -- all of which will promote their growth, but also will reduce some of the imbalances around the world.
Spending for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the income security programs (mostly welfare), will consume 95% of all federal revenues.
On average, buildings consume 42% of all electricity worldwide.
It is moving from all-you-can-consume data to tiered pricing.
"Two years ago we were not so dependent on all the kinds of information we consume now, from Facebook and Twitter to news and other RSS feeds, " Vlad Martynov told the BBC.
Is it just a quirky paradox of the human condition that we eagerly consume things that give off all the signals of putrefaction?
"It also had to build entirely new Iraqi security forces, a task that would ultimately consume more than half of all U.S.-appropriated reconstruction dollars, " the report said.
As workers all, we produce in order to consume, and when unnatural obstacles retard our ability to trade our labor for what we want, we face a tax, along with a certain loss of liberty.
First, companies that currently consume gasoline or diesel fuel must consider all avenues for fuel conversion.
On the spending front, Bernanke engaged in one of the most impoverishing economic fallacies of all--the one that says individuals must consume for an economy to grow.
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